New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-06-05
NO TROUBLE Al ALL TO COMPLAIN
LETTERS SENT TO THE HEALTH BOARD.

| LETTERS SENT TO THE HEALTH BOAhD.
PECULIAR INVITATIONS TO ABATE NUIsANcEs AND
TO GIVE EMPLOYMENT TO cRASKs.
In pireon-hole of Sanitary Superintendent Days
Office desk d collection OF curious letters which nave
been sent to the Health Board. For various reasons
the letters have not been considered worthy OF place
on the bulky files of the department but they serve
TO show that there are many queer people III New-
York and elsewhere Many complaints without al
dresses which would enable the sanitary officers to
abate nuisances, are sent to the department every
year The writers apparently forget that the city
too big TOR immediate response to an Invitation ike
the following which is q fair sampler
live in tenement house in First-ave., and 1t is
oyerrun with rats and bugs. Come and see for your
self and save poor families from perishlng.
Sometimes the name of street is given without the
number of the house. and often the house number is
given while the name of the street or avenue is
yanting Frequently there is no address. but only
o name which Is not in the directory. witness these
urgent appeals:
We cot 6 children, and by the bad wishes OF the
landlord we are infected by the badost odois By
quick action you will the family of big trouble
and expenses Come and see by yourself and you
will save trouble your people by stopping SUCH
thing Yours very truly respectfully, TENANT
For about six months "a German sooa leo b Dana
wind-cracked horns. They are engaged by the year
to make NOISE in front OF the house by the saloon
keeper on the first floor To hear them once is
terrible The thought OF having them always in our
midst is unendurabIe Yesterday they played while
person dying next door and refused 10 stof.
Please attend to them. oUFFL
SIR, The Board OF Helth was around tond smeiled
peppermint witch he carried in his pocket the same
trick was done in another honse wisp boy
and make II smell ike sewer gas Yours respectfully
A man signing the name " Homo" has written
several postal cards warning the Health Board against
religious influences In the city One OF his notes reads
Pope and bible influence are worse here for peace,
morality and human rights not only but for mental
health By education than feared yellow fever cholera,
etc.. scourges in truth. PATRIOTIC medical faculties
should not submit cowardy any longer here to such
destructive energetic scourges OF outlandsh infection
OF mental health OF mankind.
Good reports about the New-York Health Beard
have reached as far as Hickory, Mason County, w.
written this notei
DEAR SIR, 1 heard of you as great Doctor for al
deassases aud thought OF writing TOR hst Of your
an extract for starting wiskers on bare faces,
J. A. BLANK.
A disguised plumber sent to Sanitary Headquarters
the following list Of articles which he said he had
found in the trap of house drain Pifth-ave.:
clothes pins, 90 hair pins, chicken bones, kindlng
wood, broken china, cindsrs, coal and vegetables.
An Irishwoman. ing in Third-ave, sent this modest
invitation to the President OF board OF helth'.
SIR:I have been In bed with very swelled foot
for six days from the Blank Corn Killer it is poisoned
my foot and want to sue the company for damages
but am in bed and can't get out please come and see
me- Mas. MCCooL-
Several persons have complained that boycotting"
was dangerous TO their lives aud detrimental to
health. One persistent writer on tho subject has
deolaredi
For some time ! have found number OF bovcotting
male and female and liquor saloon loafers and
some persons generally talking against me In an
underlined confidential way the result OF which has
nIy hyn Il
right side aud think has brbed the chinese
man to put something In my undershirt For some
time have heard and seen some very wrong sugges-
tons MEETINGS and talk have the food and drink put
before me la restaurants used In an unhealthy way.
An indignant Hebrew, who had been warned that
be was liable to arrest for keeping chickens without
permit sent to DR.. Day this bogus permit which he
had purchased from an impostor:
NEw-YoRK CITY, April /.
hearty give the Permisnun TO keap hens and pigs
on the sed premises at 141 1T and SAINT Nickiss Ave-
Inspector OF the Bord OF helth In sed city.
SAMUEL DAVIS Allrite.
Numbers of persons have written to the Board of
Health asking for Endorsements OF qnaok medicines or
offering cell patent remedies tor all the Ills OF the
body. One man has written from Detroit, Mich, that
he will send tor hydrophobia and smallI OK at
the rate of 4" one dollar for each person cured
Another man was confident that he could cure yellow
eps and y,aes TO 4. pdSs aae
de Colombia, s. A., willing to travel all the way
to NewYork to get permanent job, offering to cure
burg, Penn, who thinks she has sure clre TOR
hydrophoba has asked the Health BoGrd to assist her
In getting her goods on the market one Wrote As
am a widow and have not the means to advertise
this cure take this way of getting it into circulation
and letting the public know that there is cure tor
that dreadful disease"
Talk OF an underground railway In Broadway has
impelled persons to offer suggestions regarding
the sanitary unsanitary effects of such a road.
The most Interesting, account OF tho striking
language, was sent by q Broadway "inventor"
Occasional please to take knowledge In the Mayors
Office item in the department of street cleaning from
tbs existence OF plans calling Underground Street
That would be CLEAN la the future oil the City OF
New York, model for the world, glance in streets
sound clear, unobstructed and looking fair, fine and
msthetical. Looking IN the winter just as in the
summer, without amusement of snow and OF dust
with protection for thousands OF workmen too inhrm
to be working the extremes OF heat and cold,
besides fares at 3 cents per person."
Ii is @ common thing for persons TO complain about
barking dogs noisy parrots offensive rats cats and the
many small creatures which disturb occupants OF
enement houses but invitation to make hunt for
katydds recently astVnshed DR.. Day. II came TO
him In this form We wish to call your attenson to
have Katie Did removed from Vest 80 street which
is kept in the yard and it leaves hard worker Ople
sick and weary for there want OF rest at night"